How to Identify Food Deserts: Measuring Physical and Economic Access to Supermarkets in King County, Washington

Jiao, Junfeng; Moudon, Anne Vernez; Ulmer, Jonathan D.; Hurvitz, Philip M.; Drewnowski, Adam

doi:10.2105/ajph.2012.300675

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“…One contributing factor to the obesity in low SES populations is the existence of food deserts in those neighborhoods. [64][65][66] However, this may not be specifically related to Blacks alone. Food deserts are defined in different terms in different studies, but are generally considered to be low SES areas where residents live more than a mile from an affordable grocery store in urban areas, and 10 miles in rural areas.…”

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Review: Increasing Awareness and Education on Health Disparities for Health Care Providers

Nesbitt

Palomarez

2016

Ethn Dis

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The focus of this review is to highlight health care disparities and trends in several common diseases in selected populations while offering evidence-based approaches to mitigating health care disparities. Health care disparities cross many barriers and affect multiple populations and diseases. Ethnic minorities, the elderly, and those of lower socioeconomic status (SES) are more at-risk than others. However, many low SES Whites and higher SES racial minorities have poorer health than their racial or SES peers. Also, recent immigrant groups and Hispanics, in particular, maintain high health ratings. The so-called Hispanic Paradox provides an example of how culture and social background can be used to improve health outcomes. These groups have unique determinants of disparity that are based on a wide range of cultural and societal factors. Providing improved access to care and reducing the social determinants of disparity is crucial to improving public health. At the same time, for providers, increasing an understanding of the social determinants promotes better models of individualized care to encourage more equitable care. These approaches include increasing provider education on disparities encountered by different populations, practicing active listening skills, and utilizing a patient’s cultural background to promote healthy behaviors. Ethn Dis. 2016;26(2):181-190; doi:10.18865/ed.26.2.181

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Review: Increasing Awareness and Education on Health Disparities for Health Care Providers

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Palomarez

2016

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“…The accessibility measure is based on a binary accessibility (Tolmáči, 2002). In this case, we can discuss the distance of the delimitation of food deserts (Jiao et al, 2012). Distances of 10 and 15 minutes were used for the delimitation of food deserts in rural area was.…”

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Mapping of Grocery Stores in Slovak Countryside in Context of Food Deserts

Bilková¹,

Križan²

2015

Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun.

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“…These service areas represent the coverage that can be traveled by foot using the road network, which in urban areas is expected to be complemented with pedestrian infrastructure like sidewalks. The result of intersecting the service areas with U.S. census data is an estimate of the population within a walkable distance area from a commercial facility (Jiao et al 2012). Because the service area technique takes into account the paths and street networks through which people can move, we decided that this technique would provide better estimates than the Euclidean buffer technique.…”

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Food Sources and Accessibility and Waste Disposal Patterns across an Urban Tropical Watershed: Implications for the Flow of Materials and Energy

García-Montiel¹,

Verdejo-Ortiz²,

Santiago-Bartolomei³

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ABSTRACT. Appraising the social-ecological processes influencing the inflow, transformation, and storage of materials and energy in urban ecosystems requires scientific attention. This appraisal can provide an important tool for assessing the sustainability of cities. Socioeconomic activities are mostly responsible for these fluxes, which are well manifested in the household unit. Human behavior associated with cultural traditions, belief systems, knowledge, and lifestyles are important drivers controlling the transfer of materials throughout the urban environment. Within this context, we explored three aspects of household consumption and waste disposal activities along the Río Piedras Watershed in the San Juan metropolitan area of Puerto Rico. These included: the source of food consumed by residents, recycling activities, and trends in connection to the municipality's sewerage system. We randomly interviewed 440 households at 6 sites along the watershed. We also conducted analysis to estimate accessibility to commercial food services for residents in the study areas. Our surveys revealed that nearly all interviewed households (~97%) consumed products from supermarkets. In neighborhoods of the upper portion of the watershed, where residential density is low with large areas of vegetative cover, more than 60% of residents consumed food items cultivated in their yards. Less than 36% of residents in the in densely urbanized parts of the lower portion of the watershed consumed items from their yards. Accessibility to commercial stores for food consumption contrasted among study sites. Recycling activities were mostly carried out by residents in the lower portion of the watershed, with better access to recycling programs provided by the municipality. The surveys also revealed that only 4 to 17% of residences in the upper watershed are connected to the sewerage system whereas the large majority uses septic tanks for septic water disposal. For these residents wastewater from house maintenance is disposed of directly into the environment. In the lower portion of the watershed all residents were connected to the sewerage system. Our study suggests there is a need to understand human behavioral attitudes in the acquirement and processing of resources, as a tool to generate informed-based strategies promoting sustainable consumption and disposal patterns.

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How to Identify Food Deserts: Measuring Physical and Economic Access to Supermarkets in King County, Washington

Cited by 145 publications

References 32 publications

Review: Increasing Awareness and Education on Health Disparities for Health Care Providers

Review: Increasing Awareness and Education on Health Disparities for Health Care Providers

Mapping of Grocery Stores in Slovak Countryside in Context of Food Deserts

Food Sources and Accessibility and Waste Disposal Patterns across an Urban Tropical Watershed: Implications for the Flow of Materials and Energy

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